Pop Culture Flavor Text References in Legion Legendaries

At the recent Class Design Reddit AMA, we finally learned the secret of Sephuz. In his reply, Seph explained the secret and talked about how fun flavor text is...so we rounded up all the pop culture references from Legion legendaries in this article! If this is popular, we may do another post highlighting the Warcraft-specific references too.

Sephuz's Secret is kind of a reference to a scene in Kung Fu Hustle, where The Beast (the bad ass bad guy) shoots a gun at his own head point-blank and catches the bullet with his fingers, then says something like "In the world of kung fu, speed determines the winner." I always thought that was really bad ass, and Sephuz's Secret is a speed-themed item (movement speed, haste) so there it is.

I've always loved flavor text (probably stemming from my MTG days) and love adding references to names/flavor text of things. I could probably do an entire writeup just on references in the names and flavor text of legendary items. Many of them players have figured out (e.g. Tak'theritrix's Shoulderpads) and it definitely makes me really happy to see when people get it.

Comentado por Terrassen

on 2017-07-04T11:14:00-05:00

Máscara Vodu do Caçador Sombrio 's quote is a reference to the 2002 film The Bourne Identity, which the target of a previous assassination attempt Wombosi by the main character Bourne (Matt Damon) says just before he is shot, which is references to two scenes in the film.

Comentado por perculia

on 2017-07-04T11:22:42-05:00

Máscara Vodu do Caçador Sombrio 's quote is a reference to the 2002 film The Bourne Identity, which the target of a previous assassination attempt Wombosi by the main character Bourne (Matt Damon) says just before he is shot, which is references to two scenes in the film.

Oh neat! I always assumed it was just a Voljin thing because of the model.

Comentado por 1f1n1ty

on 2017-07-04T11:39:18-05:00

Pyrotex Ignition Cloth has flavor text that references the Magic Card Sizzle. "Of course you can fight fire with fire. You can fight everything with fire."

This is actually a reference to an anime called fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood. The character Roy Mustang uses white gloves made of "pyrotex/ignition cloth," to preform flame alchemy.

Comentado por perculia

on 2017-07-04T11:42:04-05:00

Pyrotex Ignition Cloth has flavor text that references the Magic Card Sizzle. "Of course you can fight fire with fire. You can fight everything with fire."

This is actually a reference to an anime called fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood. The character Roy Mustang uses white gloves made of "pyrotex/ignition cloth," to preform flame alchemy.

Could be both - title references the anime, flavor text references the card.

Comentado por Sneakattakk

on 2017-07-04T12:12:51-05:00

Roar of the Seven Lions you have backwards, the song is called Tyven, and the group Seven Lions.

Comentado por zgstas

Comentado por kimmuryiel

on 2017-07-05T00:34:29-05:00

I'm genuinely surprised there was a Yu Yu Hakusho reference, seeing as I don't think that anime got as popular as others such as Sailor Moon (I'm not much of an anime connoisseur, but there are a few I've seen. Mostly from the 90s/early 00s)

Comentado por Artio

on 2017-07-05T04:36:56-05:00

These are fun facts! Thank you for posting.Future easter eggs postings are also welcome; I'm eager to travel to places to learn about the thoughts behind the creation.

Comentado por asloversgo

Comentado por Tribunal

There's a pretty impressively progressed Oneth on the US armory, but no Aglaya to go with that I see.

0 evidence to it being them, just a possibility. Appear to be no longer super active (on that character at least).

Comentado por Acry

on 2017-07-06T13:12:34-05:00

TIL that the DK shoulders are named after the very same DK I was going to compete against for realm first lv.90 DK in MoP on Tichondrius. He told me he had practiced the leveling route several times on beta, so I ended up going for realmfirst enchanting instead, which he intended to get if he could after his first goal but I snagged it. Always looked up to him for information on DK once I found out he wrote guides after. Hope he's enjoying his job.

Comentado por Aeba

on 2017-07-08T20:31:40-05:00

Small correction: Above and beyond, also mentioned in flavour text of Entrancing Trousers of An'juna, is a music group. Above and beyond also owns the record label Anjunabeats.